{"rewrite":{"id":"r_6ac6bc937a33c8c679c17cf1","clusterId":"c_e97834adec782ad44caa77d6","slug":"j-c-staff-animates-teenage-mercenary-for-2027-broadcast","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"J.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary for 2027 Broadcast","summary":"Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con on Thursday that J.C. Staff is animating the adaptation of YC and Rakyeon's webtoon Teenage Mercenary for broadcast next year. Manabu Ono directs and oversees series scripts, Koji Haneda designs characters, Hiroyuki Sawano composes music, and Hayate produces. The webtoon launched on Naver Webtoon in November 2020, has over 2.84 billion views worldwide, and is distributed in 10 languages.","whyItMatters":"The adaptation hands a webtoon with a large worldwide readership to a studio that produces multiple series a year, with Sawano and Ono attached, and puts the announcement on Crunchyroll's New York Comic Con stage rather than a Japanese event.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe production credits were named alongside the broadcast window. Manabu Ono, whose directing credits include Sword Art Online: Alicization, handles direction and series scripts, Koji Haneda designs the characters, and Hiroyuki Sawano composes. Hayate produces.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe source webtoon runs in 10 languages with over 2.84 billion views worldwide as of September 2026, and its domestic Japanese view count on LINE Manga passed 730 million as of May 2025. It placed first in the LINE Manga annual rankings for both 2023 and 2024, according to the same announcement.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Teenage Mercenary gets a J.C. Staff adaptation for 2027. Manabu Ono directs and handles series scripts, Hiroyuki Sawano composes, Hayate produces. Crunchyroll announced it at New York Comic Con.","twitterPost":"Teenage Mercenary is getting a J.C. Staff anime for 2027. Manabu Ono directs and oversees scripts, Hiroyuki Sawano composes, Hayate produces. Crunchyroll announced at New York Comic Con.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Crunchyroll used its New York Comic Con slot to name the staff behind the Teenage Mercenary anime: J.C. Staff animates, Manabu Ono directs and oversees scripts, Hiroyuki Sawano composes, Koji Haneda designs characters, Hayate produces. Broadcast is set for next year. The webtoon runs in 10 languages and has over 2.84 billion views worldwide.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-08/j.c-staff-animates-teenage-mercenary-webtoon-for-2027-broadcast/.242646\",\"title\":\"J.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary Webtoon for 2027 Broadcast\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4365,"outputTokens":646,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791510728,"createdAt":"2026-10-09T01:47:52.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-09T01:51:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T01:51:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_e97834adec782ad44caa77d6","canonicalTitle":"News\nJ.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary Webtoon for 2027 Broadcast","representativeArticleId":"a_cf8f6208084534fe0c580940","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Teenage Mercenary\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"J.C. Staff\"],\"people\":[\"Manabu Ono\",\"Hiroyuki Sawano\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-09T00:39:51.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-09T00:39:51.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T01:51:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-08/j.c-staff-animates-teenage-mercenary-webtoon-for-2027-broadcast/.242646","title":"News\nJ.C. Staff Animates Teenage Mercenary Webtoon for 2027 Broadcast"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Teenage Mercenary"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["J.C. Staff"],"people":["Manabu Ono","Hiroyuki Sawano"],"type":"announcement","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}